HMS Victory

HMS Victory was a 104-gun first rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy that was launched in 1765. The ship had a long tradition of serving as a flagship for British admirals, serving as Augustus Keppel's flagship at Ushant and Richard Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel during the American Revolutionary War, John Jervis' flagship at Cape St. Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars, and Horatio Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars. After 1824, HMS Victory served as a harbor ship, and it was preserved as a museum ship in Portsmouth harbor after 1922, becoming flagship of the First Sea Lord and becoming the world's oldest ship still in commission.